However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.
Hence, in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
To the mind that could dream and shape our beaconed universe, what is injustice to us may be unfathomable tenderness, and our horror only loveliness misunderstood.
Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.
The air was fresh and crisp and had a distinct smell which was a mixture of the dried leaves on the ground and the smoke from the chimneys and the sweet ripe apples that were still clinging onto the branches in the orchard behind the house.
The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind.
Jimmy: One day, when I'm no longer spending my days running a sweet-stall, I may write a book about us all. It's all here. (slapping his forehead) Written in flames a mile high. And it won't be recollected in tranquillity either, picking daffodils wi...
When in Reading Gaol he told me that the warders in the dock had been gentle and kind, but the visit of the chaplain in his first prison began with these words: 'Mr. Wilde, did you have morning prayers in your house?' 'I am sorry... I fear not.' 'You...
The actuality of us being cognizant and accepting of the fact we are but a speck of sand in a universe sized desert, whose existence is irrelevant to any facet of universal function is a hard pill to swallow. Knowing the world will go on for another ...
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
My first recollection is that of a bugle call.
My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
I have always been honest about my recollection of events.
Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention...
The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.
It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
